Malcolm Alexander was exonerated after serving nearly 38 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, and he did not go home alone. Instead he walked out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola with a puppy he had raised during his time behind bars, Inside Edition noted.

The 9-month-old black Labrador, Innocent, latched onto Alexander after being born the runt of a litter, to a mother that belonged to one of Alexander's friends.

Prison officials allowed him to keep the pet and a day after he walked free she was delivered to his house by the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that fights for those who have been wrongfully imprisoned.